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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,517 Views
21 Pages

Dominant colors significantly influence visual image perception and are widely used in computer vision and design. Traditional extraction methods often neglect visually salient colors that occupy small areas yet possess high aesthetic relevance. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,344 Views
11 Pages

Utilizing 3D Printing Technology to Create Prosthetic Irises: Proof of Concept and Workflow

  • Alisa J. Prager,
  • Nathaniel Henning,
  • Lauren Burns,
  • Abhijit Ramaprasad,
  • Surendra Basti and
  • Monica M. Laronda

Purpose: There are currently limited treatment options for aniridia. In this context, 3D printed iris implants may provide a cost-effective, cosmetically acceptable alternative for patients with aniridia. The purpose of this study was to develop a pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,113 Views
24 Pages

28 March 2024

Color plays an essential role in the design of user interfaces and significantly impacts the user experience. To create aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly interfaces, the colors of the user interface should be consistent with the images. The la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,598 Views
17 Pages

Tactile perception enables people with visual impairments (PVI) to engage with artworks and real-life objects at a deeper abstraction level. The development of tactile and multi-sensory assistive technologies has expanded their opportunities to appre...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,067 Views
10 Pages

Full-Color and Anti-Counterfeit Printings with All-Dielectric Chiral Metasurfaces

  • Longjie Li,
  • He Li,
  • Huakui Hu,
  • Xiao Shang,
  • Huiwen Xue,
  • Jinyu Hu,
  • Cheng Lu,
  • Shengjie Zhao,
  • Jiebin Niu and
  • Lina Shi

Structural color is anticipated to replace pigmented or chemical color due to its superior saturation, resolution, environmental friendliness, and longevity. We achieve a full-color gamut of structural colors and anti-counterfeit functions by an all-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,642 Views
24 Pages

15 February 2022

Color occupies a prominent place in the bibliography of cartography, as it is an important element in the formation of cartographic symbolization. Apart from the technical issues of its application to maps, color theory is one of the elements that co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,619 Views
18 Pages

6 February 2024

In product design, color is the first element that acts on the human visual senses and significantly influences consumer decisions. This study aimed to analyze consumers’ color preferences for products and explore the mathematical patterns of p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
110 Citations
7,265 Views
13 Pages

Evaluation of the Color Stability of 3D-Printed Crown and Bridge Materials against Various Sources of Discoloration: An In Vitro Study

  • Ji-Won Shin,
  • Jong-Eun Kim,
  • Young-Jin Choi,
  • Seung-Ho Shin,
  • Na-Eun Nam,
  • June-Sung Shim and
  • Keun-Woo Lee

26 November 2020

Recent advances in three-dimensional (3D) printing have introduced new materials that can be utilized for dental restorations. Nonetheless, there are limited studies on the color stability of restorations using 3D-printed crowns and bridge resins. He...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,789 Views
15 Pages

31 May 2022

Hardwood is widely used in the surface decoration of furniture and wood products due to its rich texture and durable surface, and the improvement of wood grain images is vital to promote the aesthetics of wood surfaces. In order to restore the Gaussi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
118 Citations
16,493 Views
27 Pages

Therapeutic Application of Betalains: A Review

  • Elaheh Madadi,
  • Sahand Mazloum-Ravasan,
  • Jae Sik Yu,
  • Ji Won Ha,
  • Hamed Hamishehkar and
  • Ki Hyun Kim

17 September 2020

Anthocyanins, betalains, riboflavin, carotenoids, chlorophylls and caramel are the basic natural food colorants used in modern food manufacture. Betalains, which are composed of red–violet betacyanin and yellow betaxanthins, are water-soluble p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,325 Views
22 Pages

Investigation of Color and Mechanical Properties of Parts Printed on 3D Printers After Salt Spray Testing

  • İsmet Onur Ünal,
  • Oğuz Koçar,
  • Vahap Neccaroğlu,
  • Erhan Baysal and
  • Nergizhan Anaç

9 July 2025

The use of plastic materials in the maritime industry is increasing day by day. Plastics are particularly preferred in watercraft due to their lightweight, resistance to water-related damage (such as mold and wear), optical clarity, and high corrosio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,835 Views
13 Pages

The Composition of Anthocyanins and Carotenoids Influenced the Flower Color Heredity in Asiatic Hybrid Lilies

  • Jiewen Li,
  • Jiawei Chen,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Pengcheng Yu,
  • Yanping Zhou and
  • Guixia Jia

Flower color, including color hues and spot patterns, is an extremely important trait in Asiatic hybrid lilies. Investigating flower color variation across different cross combinations may help us select breeding parents efficiently. Thus, three hybr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,411 Views
11 Pages

Optimization of Process of Dyeing Alpaca Yarn Using Indigo Carmine (C.I. Natural Blue 2)

  • Cristina M. Luque-Jacobo,
  • Elizabeth Medrano de Jara,
  • Jose Carrasco Bocangel and
  • Edgar García-Hernández

18 June 2025

As part of an implementation in the Peruvian textile industry, the use of different sources to obtain blue hues in alpaca fiber has taken on a prominent role. The present study investigated the optimization of the dyeing process of alpaca fibers usin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,600 Views
19 Pages

A Fast Calibration Method for Phased Arrays by Using the Graph Coloring Theory

  • Lijie Yang,
  • Ruirui Dang,
  • Min Li,
  • Kailong Zhao,
  • Chunyi Song and
  • Zhiwei Xu

7 December 2018

Phased array radars are able to provide highly accurate airplane surveillance and tracking performance if they are properly calibrated. However, the ambient temperature variation and device aging could greatly deteriorate their performance. Currently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,847 Views
32 Pages

6 November 2024

With the growth of the Myanmar spinel market in recent years, spinels of colors other than red, including gray spinels, have gained increasing popularity. In this study, we performed conventional gemological, spectroscopic, and chemical analyses on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,296 Views
22 Pages

Research on the Impact of Lighting Illuminance and Color on Creative Performance and Mood

  • Bo Zhou,
  • Yangxiaoxiao Zhou,
  • Qixuan Ren,
  • Li Peng,
  • Yang Guan and
  • Haiyin He

With the development of the knowledge economy, the significance of the creative industry has become increasingly prominent. Individual creativity can be stimulated by optimal lighting. This research consists of two parts: Part I examines the effects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,524 Views
21 Pages

16 December 2024

Background/Objectives: This study explores the significance of beetroot and tomato juices, two prominent health-promoting foods known for their rich nutrient content and bioactive compounds. The growing consumer awareness of the link between diet and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,614 Views
15 Pages

Enhanced Vision System (EVS) offers a display advantage that conventional devices lack, enabling interface information to be overlaid on real-world imagery. However, information overload, especially in complex environments, can reduce the recognizabi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,288 Views
16 Pages

Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Visual Cues on Consumer Emotion and Purchase Intent: A Case of Ready-to-Eat Salad

  • Pitchayapat Chonpracha,
  • Ryan Ardoin,
  • Yupeng Gao,
  • Pamarin Waimaleongora-ek,
  • Georgianna Tuuri and
  • Witoon Prinyawiwatkul

31 March 2020

With increasing demand for ready-to-eat (RTE) fresh vegetables, it is important to understand how visual information cues, both intrinsic and extrinsic, affect consumer perception of these products. This study developed an emotional and wellness lexi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,161 Views
18 Pages

Zamia magnifica (Zamiaceae, Cycadales): A New Rupicolous Cycad Species from Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico

  • Miguel Angel Pérez-Farrera,
  • José Said Gutiérrez-Ortega,
  • Mauricio Gerónimo Martínez-Martínez and
  • Michael Calonje

8 May 2023

Zamia magnifica (Zamiaceae), a new species endemic to Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico, is described. Zamia magnifica is characterized by having a rupicolous habit, pendent leaves bearing leaflets that are densely tomentose and pink to caramel in color w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,236 Views
17 Pages

Metabolomic Analysis on the Petal of ‘Chen Xi’ Rose with Light-Induced Color Changes

  • Mengyue Su,
  • Rebecca Njeri Damaris,
  • Zhengrong Hu,
  • Pingfang Yang and
  • Jiao Deng

30 September 2021

Flower color is one of the most prominent traits of rose flowers and determines their ornamental value. The color of the “Chen Xi” rose can change from yellow to red during flower blooming. In the present study, the flavonoid metabolites were investi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,576 Views
17 Pages

5 September 2025

The incorporation of bioactive compounds from plant-based by-products into staple foods represents a sustainable strategy to enhance both nutritional quality and health benefits. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of buckwheat husk addi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,459 Views
15 Pages

Study on Fluorescence Properties of Green-Blue Apatite

  • Qicheng Yan,
  • Ziyuan Liu and
  • Ying Guo

19 June 2022

The fluorescence phenomenon of apatite is an important feature. In this paper, three apatites with uniform transition from green to blue were selected, and the fluorescence color characteristics of the samples were observed under UV fluorescent lamp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,964 Views
8 Pages

ColorViz, a New and Rapid Tool for Assessing Collateral Circulation during Stroke

  • Tommaso Verdolotti,
  • Fabio Pilato,
  • Simone Cottonaro,
  • Edoardo Monelli,
  • Carolina Giordano,
  • Pamela Guadalupi,
  • Massimo Benenati,
  • Antonia Ramaglia,
  • Alessandro Maria Costantini and
  • Cesare Colosimo
  • + 2 authors

20 November 2020

Prognosis of patients with acute ischemic stroke is strictly related to the patency and prominence of the collateral leptomeningeal pathways distal to the arterial occlusion. The gold standard for assessment of collateral circulation is conventional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,194 Views
16 Pages

The More Fractal the Architecture the More Intensive the Color of Flower: A Superpixel-Wise Analysis towards High-Throughput Phenotyping

  • Jardel da Silva Souza,
  • Laura Monteiro Pedrosa,
  • Bruno Rafael de Almeida Moreira,
  • Elizanilda Ramalho do Rêgo and
  • Sandra Helena Unêda-Trevisoli

31 May 2022

A breeder can select a visually appealing phenotype, whether for ornamentation or landscaping. However, the organic vision is not accurate and objective, making it challenging to bring a reliable phenotyping intervention into implementation. Therefor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,885 Views
32 Pages

5 October 2021

The free energy principle from neuroscience has recently gained traction as one of the most prominent brain theories that can emulate the brain’s perception and action in a bio-inspired manner. This renders the theory with the potential to hold the k...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,762 Views
10 Pages

Tooth Shade Relationship with Age, Gender, and Skin Color in a Saudi Population: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Hussain Alsayed,
  • Razan Alaqeely,
  • Nawaf Almazrouei,
  • Mohammed Alzahrani,
  • Faris Alzahrani,
  • Abdulaziz Bin Oun and
  • Abdulmonem Alshihri

21 June 2022

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between tooth shade among different groups of patients according to their age, gender, and skin color in a Saudi population. Materials and methods: Participants were divided based on ag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,555 Views
20 Pages

Colorants and Antioxidants Deriving from Methylglyoxal and Heterocyclic Maillard Reaction Intermediates

  • Leon Valentin Bork,
  • Maximilian Baumann,
  • Tobias Stobernack,
  • Sascha Rohn and
  • Clemens Kanzler

21 September 2023

The Maillard reaction is well known for producing antioxidant compounds alongside colored substances. Low-molecular-weight antioxidant intermediates such as maltol (MAL) or norfuraneol (NF) are well described, but it is still unclear which of these M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
782 Views
16 Pages

20 September 2025

Freshwater bead-cultured pearls (FWBCPs) from Zhuji, China, have gained significant market prominence due to their large size, unique pearl luster, and diverse color. This study systematically investigated the mineral compositions and organic color-r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,772 Views
16 Pages

Path Planning of Logistic Robot Using Method of Vector Marks Tree Generation

  • Olga Strikuliene,
  • Kastytis Kiprijonas Sarkauskas,
  • Julius Gelsvartas,
  • Leonas Balasevicius,
  • Virginijus Baranauskas and
  • Alma Derviniene

25 December 2023

The authors of this article analyzed the problem of logistic robotics. This paper presents a method for robot navigation in a known environment. The method consists of two steps. The first step is to model the system, assign vector marks to the promi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,882 Views
17 Pages

Influence of Root Color and Tissue on Phytochemical Contents and Antioxidant Activities in Carrot Genotypes

  • Shiva Ram Bhandari,
  • Chang Sun Choi,
  • Juhee Rhee,
  • Yu Kyeong Shin,
  • Jae Woo Song,
  • Seong-Hoon Kim,
  • Solly Kang and
  • Jun Gu Lee

26 December 2022

This study monitored changes in major carotenoids (lutein, ⍺-carotene, and β-carotene), free sugars (fructose, glucose, and sucrose), ascorbic acid, vitamin E, phytosterols (campesterol, stigmasterol, and β-sitosterol), fatty acid com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,977 Views
23 Pages

1 December 2022

The complex spatial environment of underground commercial street spaces will affect users’ behavior and information needs. As a medium to coordinate the interaction between the underground commercial street space environment and people, guide s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,487 Views
21 Pages

Function of Anthocyanin and Chlorophyll Metabolic Pathways in the Floral Sepals Color Formation in Different Hydrangea Cultivars

  • Yanguo Ke,
  • Umair Ashraf,
  • Dongdong Wang,
  • Waseem Hassan,
  • Ying Zou,
  • Ying Qi,
  • Yiwei Zhou and
  • Farhat Abbas

28 February 2025

Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla) is distinguished by having sepals instead of real petals, a trait that facilitates color diversity. Floral color is largely predetermined by structural genes linked to anthocyanin production, but the genetic fac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
753 Views
12 Pages

Pr3+-Activated Sr2LaF7 Nanoparticles as a Single-Phase White-Light-Emitting Nanophosphor

  • Bojana Milićević,
  • Aleksandar Ćirić,
  • Katarina Milenković,
  • Zoran Ristić,
  • Jovana Periša,
  • Željka Antić and
  • Miroslav D. Dramićanin

Sr2LaF7:xPr3+ (x = 0.2, 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, and 25 mol%) nanophosphors with a cubic Fm3m structure were hydrothermally synthesized, forming nearly spherical nanoparticles with an average diameter of approximately 32 nm. Diffuse reflectance measurement an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,027 Views
14 Pages

25 September 2025

Hybrid computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) materials have gained prominence in restorative dentistry due to their advantageous mechanical and esthetic properties; however, their long-term performance may be adversely affe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,598 Views
28 Pages

Wine and Copper Color: Dyes by a Quaker Woman in Scotland, 1697–1723

  • Sarah K. Rich,
  • Marie Huard,
  • Catherine Adams and
  • Carolyn Lucarelli

9 August 2025

This paper discusses dye recipes written after 1697 by Christian Barclay [Jaffray], a Scottish woman from a prominent Quaker family. The more than sixty dye recipes were written by Barclay in a receipt book that also contains medical and culinary rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,238 Views
13 Pages

The Quality Evaluation of Highland Barley and Its Suitability for Chinese Traditional Tsampa Processing

  • Hu Xia,
  • Bo Yu,
  • Yanting Yang,
  • Yan Wan,
  • Liang Zou,
  • Lianxin Peng,
  • Lidan Lu and
  • Yuanhang Ren

18 February 2024

The physicochemical traits of highland barley prominently affect the quality of Tsampa. To find out the relevance between the physicochemical properties of raw material and the texture parameters of processed products, twenty-five physicochemical tra...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,025 Views
9 Pages

20 June 2024

Microplastic (MP) contamination has grown to be a serious environmental issue in recent years. Microplastics are plastic particles, with a size of less than 5 mm, that are either produced specifically for use in a variety of products or emerge throug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,786 Views
15 Pages

12 October 2025

This study aimed to determine the presence and characteristics of microplastics (MPs) in six commercially important fish species in Samsun city of, the Middle Black Sea Region: rainbow trout–Turkish salmon (Oncorhynchus mykiss), European seabass (Dic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,223 Views
15 Pages

16 October 2019

Natural mating colony cages for layer breeders have become commonplace for layer breeders in China. However, feather pecking (FP) and cannibalism are prominent in this system. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of four light-e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,282 Views
18 Pages

Impact of Drying-Induced Structural Modifications on Flavor Release of Star Anise During Boiling

  • Xiangmin Kuang,
  • Silei Zhang,
  • Chaofan Guo,
  • Yongli Jiang,
  • Wenchao Liu,
  • Fujie Zhang,
  • Qingbo Huang and
  • Junjie Yi

19 May 2025

Star anise, a traditional seasoning, plays a significant role in influencing consumer preferences through its flavor release during cooking. This study examines how drying techniques—hot air drying (HAD), heat pump drying (HPD), Far-infrared dr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,009 Views
35 Pages

Blood Vessel Topography of the Feet in Selected Species of Birds of Prey and Owls

  • Rebekka Schwehn,
  • Elisabeth Engelke,
  • Christian Seiler,
  • Dominik Fischer,
  • Hermann Seifert,
  • Christiane Pfarrer,
  • Michael Fehr and
  • Marko Legler

14 February 2024

Birds of prey and owls are susceptible to diseases of and traumatic injuries to their feet, which regularly require surgical intervention. A precise knowledge of the blood vessel topography is essential for a targeted therapy. Therefore, the metatars...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,788 Views
20 Pages

Determining the Effects of Light on the Fruit Peel Quality of Photosensitive and Nonphotosensitive Eggplant

  • Zhaoze Sang,
  • Jinhua Zuo,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Anzhen Fu,
  • Yanyan Zheng,
  • Yonghong Ge,
  • Zongwei Qian and
  • Yanling Cui

12 August 2022

With the development of facility agriculture, low-light stress is a prominent problem and a popular research topic currently. In this study, transcriptome analysis was used to analyze the genes in the fruit peel of photosensitive and nonphotosensitiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
842 Views
14 Pages

A Trigonometric Variant of Kaneko–Tsumura ψ-Values

  • Ende Pan,
  • Xin Lin,
  • Ce Xu and
  • Jianqiang Zhao

29 November 2024

Many variations of the multiple zeta values have been found to play important roles in different branches of mathematics and theoretical physics in recent years, such as the cyclotomic/color version, which appears prominently in the computation of Fe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,487 Views
19 Pages

7 May 2021

National parks are important natural reserves of high ecological value, and the visual perception of national park landscapes is closely tied to the degree of protection that the natural resources within national parks receive. Visual cognition has a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,635 Views
16 Pages

A Machine Vision Method for Detecting Pineapple Fruit Mechanical Damage

  • Jiahao Li,
  • Baofeng Mai,
  • Tianhu Liu,
  • Zicheng Liu,
  • Zhaozheng Liang and
  • Shuyang Liu

In the mechanical harvesting process, pineapple fruits are prone to damage. Traditional detection methods struggle to quantitatively assess pineapple damage and often operate at slow speeds. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a pineappl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
110 Views
18 Pages

Single-Nucleus Transcriptional Profiling Revealed Cell Diversity and Albino Mutation Mechanism in the Skin of Channa argus

  • Lu Zhang,
  • Jian Zhou,
  • Qiang Li,
  • Hongyu Ke,
  • Zhipeng Huang,
  • Zhongmeng Zhao,
  • Han Zhao,
  • Chengyan Mou,
  • Wei Fan and
  • Yuanliang Duan

20 January 2026

Body color is the most prominent phenotypic trait in animals. To investigate the molecular regulatory mechanisms underlying skin pigmentation and body color in Channa argus, single-nucleus RNA sequencing technology was employed to analyze cell divers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,395 Views
14 Pages

27 September 2025

Myanmar blue jadeite jade is a rare and highly prized gemstone, yet its coloration and formative mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this study, petrographic analysis, ultraviolet–visible (UV–Vis) spectroscopy, electron probe microana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,662 Views
10 Pages

29 March 2024

The multifunctional development in the field of face masks and the growing demand for scalable manufacturing have become increasingly prominent. In this study, we utilized high-vacuum magnetron sputtering technology to deposit a 5 nm ultra-thin Ag&nd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,795 Views
15 Pages

Intelligent Pick-and-Place System Using MobileNet

  • Fan Hong,
  • Donavan Wei Liang Tay and
  • Alfred Ang

The current development of a robotic arm solution for the manufacturing industry requires performing pick-and-place operations for work pieces varying in size, shape, and color across different stages of manufacturing processes. It aims to reduce or...

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